Does porridge need to be cooked or can u have it cold?!
Does porridge need to be cooked or can u have it cold?
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Porridge is cooked. The best known version is traditional Scots porridge, made with cooked oat flakes. The original Scottish way is to boil them with water and a little salt until the water is absorbed - it absorbs plenty of water. Many English people cook it with milk. Takes 20 minutes, unless using the quick-cook sort, which take 3 - 4 mins. I like it cooked with half milk and half water, and a little salt. Add a dash more milk at the table, or cream, if desired, and a little brown sugar. Also good with golden syrup or honey instead of sugar. You could eat it cold, but much nicer piping hot and freshly cooked, before it sets too firm. There are also other versions of porridge from other countries, made with other cereals, eg wheat porridge, rice porridge. In West Africa they pound rice to break it up small, and some peanuts, and boil the mixture with a litle salt for a nutritious porridge, eaten with a sprinkle of sugar.
The oat flakes can also be eaten uncooked, but then it's not porridge! There is a traditional Swiss dish called muesli, made with oat flakes, a litle fresh chopped apple and orange, and a few hazel nuts, mixed with plain yoghurt. No sugar, or very little, because it is sweetened by the fruit and nuts. There is also a version with a little chopped strawberry, called birchermuesli. It is very popular for both breakfast and lunch in Switzerland, sold in fast food lunch bars, for instance. A more modern version sold in UK adds a variety of other cereal flakes, sometimes part toasted, and some dried fruit instead of the fresh fruit. Naturally sweeter from the dried fruit. But beware of sweetened versions, because they taste awful to anyone who does not normally add sugar to breakfast cereals. Can taste a bit boring if eaten with just milk, but delicious with plain yoghurt. Add your own chopped apple etc.
you cook it so it absorbs the milk properly, and tastes better.
You could have it cold but it wouldn't be the same (the oats wouldnt expand as well
If your making it from sctratch you have to cook it to make it proper porridge otherwise your just eating flakes! But if its all ready made up I dont see any reason why not
It depends on the porridge. I have rolled oats that I eat hot in winter, so therefore I have to cook them.
In summer I make muesli that I mix the rolled oats with and I don't cook it.
So no porridge doesn't need to be cooked all of the time.
I boil my porridge for 20 minutes until the water is absorbed. Have it with milk and salt/sugar. You can leave some to set and eat cold or fry in a little oil with chopped onions.
In bygone days, shepherds and farm-hands took slices of cold cooked porridge with them for their lunch.
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Porridge oats in their natural state and uncooked would be rather unpalatable. I suppose you could make porridge in the usual way ant let it get cold before eating it. If thick you can cut it with a knife when cold. Makes like a porridge oat cake.I prefer mine hot though in the winter months.
No!
I love eating porridge uncooked.............
drenched in milk with a big blob of syrup.
I love it!!!
you can eat it cold.
It used to be lunch for agricultural workes years ago.
Cooked Oatmeal is called Porridge. Yes you can have Porridge hot or cold. Hot is better.
Cooked: Cooked in milk with a handfull of blueberries and freshly grated nutmeg and sugar or other sweetener to taste.
Uncooked: My favourite is about 1/2 cup, small tub of yoghurt (150g) and 1 scoop of protein powder. Milk or water can be substituted for the yoghurt to a consistency you like. No sugar or sweetener
well if you do have it cold i think that is would not taste dat yummy if when it is hot. so yes you can have it cold but it is better when it is hot, with jam or lots of sugar!!!!!! lol
would not advise it but being scottish it has to be with salt and my advice is eat it hot but dont just put milk on top add some cream and enjoy
I start each morning with a medium sized bowl of raw porridge oats with ice cold milk poured on the top. If horses like it and can do a days work on it. I can manage by eating it. try different brands, some are much better than others. I usually go for shops own. Been on this diet for about thirty years. (And you don't need to put your teeth in first!)
I suppose it is better cooked, but I do know that many people used to allow it to go cold and set into cakes in Scotland.
You can eat oats raw with cold milk, but I would not recommend it as it is rather bloat making!
Hot is best though.